Many organizations attempt to build a profile of you based on your browsing history. Paranoid Browsing confuses that effort by browsing the internet randomly in the background.
Is there something similar to this for Firefox?
The closest thing I have found is the TrackmeNot extension
<a href="http://trackmenot.org/" rel="nofollow">http://trackmenot.org/</a>
<a href="http://www.cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/</a><p>" TrackMeNot runs in Firefox as a low-priority background process that periodically issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines, e.g., AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and Bing. It hides users' actual search trails in a cloud of 'ghost' queries, significantly increasing the difficulty of aggregating such data into accurate or identifying user profiles. To better simulate user behavior TrackMeNot uses a dynamic query mechanism to 'evolve' each client (uniquely) over time, parsing the results of its searches for 'logical' future query terms with which to replace those already used."<p>Here's a paper they wrote on resisting surveillance in web search. <a href="http://www.cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/TMN-Howe-Niss08-ch23.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/TMN-Howe-Niss08-ch23.pdf</a>
this is cute, but it's not going to help against the kind of things we've seen from the nsa recently. the analysis there (and the stuff from palantir etc) is simply looking for a positive signal - a single connection. the kinds of algorithms used (graph based) don't normalise by the total number of connections (it's not statistical, it's structural). so having a bunch of "normal" stuff won't change anything.
The Idea sounds good, but lately I was downloading a lot of plug-ins to go "anonym".<p>How 'bout a combined plug-in that contains the following:<p>-No-script<p>-No-cache<p>-Clearing browser history every x days -Entering random results into history<p>-Disables tracking
(I'm not sure what how normal tracking works on a technical side, so sorry if that's a double with some function above)<p>Additionally you should be able to make exceptions from the restrictions, for specific websites. (Like you can in the No-Script add-on, that you might know)<p>I believe most of it can be done using multiple plug-ins,
but there seem to be space for new inventions.
This has been done many times before. One such example:<p>AntiPhorm Lite - <a href="http://tweaks.com/forum/Topic239854-59-1.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://tweaks.com/forum/Topic239854-59-1.aspx</a>